Delhi High Court. (File Photo: IANS)
Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which had challenged auctioning and selling of cricket players as part of Indian Premier League (IPL).
A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar dismissed the plea by Sudhir Sharma. They stated that it is “not a Public Interest Litigation but a ‘Publicity Interest Litigation”. Moreover, the judge also decided to fine him Rs 25,000. The bench also remarked the playing for the IPL teams in fact has raised the prestige of the cricketers.
In an interesting turnout of events, a man named Sudhir Sharma filed public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the auctioning of cricketers in the IPL. The man, who had filed the petition comparing the auctioning of cricketers to human trafficking and the plea had stated that IPL auctions also promoted corruption and nepotism.
